Monday, December 01, 2008

Ultimate Schadenfreude: What If Florida Wins But Doesn't Crack the BCS Top 2?

In the event that Florida beats Alabama, if human pollsters want to ensure that we don't see an Oklahoma-Texas result from the BCS formula, they MUST rank Florida No. 1, even if they think Oklahoma is the better team.

To avoid the Rematch No One Wants, fans will need a manual override of the computers, or I suspect folks will be freaking come Monday. This has been absurdly underreported -- see all the "playoff"/winner of the SEC Championship Game is in the BCS title game talk.

This is sizing up eerily like 2004, when an unbeaten Auburn was shut out of the BCS title game -- or even a split title -- because a Big 12 "contender" faked its way into the national title game, where they promptly got drilled.

Shanoff. It's college football. There are roster turnovers every single year. You can't use the "welp, by golly, a Big 12 team got destroyed in 2003" argument. Makes you seem real petty. And, for context, Urban wasn't even at Florida.

I get that you're worried about UF not making the title game (totally fair as a fan), but it's like you've been backed into a corner and you're trying to scratch your way out with blindly pro-SEC claws.

How can you really question Oklahoma (or Texas, for that matter) after seeing the body of work this season? The Big 12 is, no doubt about it, the best conference in college football, and both teams have come out -- relatively -- unscathed.

Second, I think that UT-OU II is definitely something people would want to see. With all of the commentary about this 3-way tie, and who deserves to be ranked higher, and blah blah blah, I think people would want to see that rematch. Way more than anyone would want to see Alabama-Florida II (should OU lose to Mizzou).

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